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The Institute of Newspaper Technology has let me know they’ve had one spot become available for the Mac platform.
The Institute of Newspaper Technology will offer classes in InDesign, QuarkXpress, Photoshop, InCopy, Dreamweaver, Video on the Web, Dreamweaver, PDF Troubleshooting and much more!

If you’re interested, contact Kathy Hensley, Accounting Services Representative, Tennessee Press Services, Inc. by phone (865)584-5761 ext 103 or e-mail khensley@tnpress.com

Thanks to Marshall Ramsey for this link:

http://www.zipskinny.com/

Enter your zip code to see U.S. Census data and comparisons with up to 20 other ZIPS.

If you have a new MacBook or MacBook Pro you should check Software Update.

Apple has just released MacBook, MacBook Pro Software Update 1.0 which corrects an issue with Journaling on those machines. This update simply enables Journaling on your Startup volume if it had been left off at the factory.

According to tuaw.com, the pricing for 2008 Office for Mac will be:

• Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac: This is the one most of us use, which includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Entourage. Pricing is for $399.95 for the full retail version and $239.95 for an upgrade.
• Microsoft Office for the Mac Home and Student Edition: This version does not support Exchange for Entourage, but could still be used by many small offices. This edition only comes in the full retail flavor for $149.95.

Coming soon: a report on the state of public notices from Tom Andrews, MPA’s 2007-2008 board president

In the meantime, some quick numbers:

# notices uploaded to mspublicnotices.com
August 2007 – 2465
August 2006 – 1750
Approximately 1/3 of newspaper members participating.

Other states such as Alabama and Georgia are reporting 90%+ participation among their members.

National Newspaper Week is Oct. 7-13. This year, the theme will focus on the importance of public notices published in newspapers.

National Newspaper Week is a project of the Newspaper Association Managers, the group of state, regional and national newspaper association executives. NAM has sponsored National Newspaper Week since the 1940s.

Several items have been posted for National Newspaper Week at www.kypress.com/nnwkit. At the same time you can sign up to be notified as more items are added
to the media kit.

• Custom Maps For Community Newspapers Now Available

Avoid quechup.com, it will spam your address book.

If you get an invitation from a friend inviting you to join a social networking site call Quechup, delete it. Joining up and making the wrong decisions in the process could result in the site spamming everyone in your address book.

The rules for the upcoming Better Newspaper Contest – Advertising Division - were posted on the MPA web site on August 31.

If you need a hard copy, please e-mail bboone@mspress.org.

The deadline for contest entries is Oct. 2, 2007.

http://www.mspress.org/bnc/index.html

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